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A quiet but consequential Outlook update has left some Windows users unable to open messages protected with Microsoft’s “Encrypt Only” setting, turning sensitive emails into unreadable attachments and forcing administrators and senders into an urgent triage mode until a permanent fix ships...

The back‑to‑back disruptions at Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure this month — a prolonged DNS/DynamoDB failure in AWS’s US‑EAST‑1 region followed days later by an Azure Front Door configuration error that impeded DNS and portal access — have reignited a familiar but widening debate...

Microsoft confirmed a regional outage that left Outlook and Exchange Online users in North America struggling with login failures, server-connection errors and delayed mail delivery, then rolled back changes and applied optimizations to restore service — while choosing not to publish full...

September’s Campus Safety Awareness Month at Baylor has focused attention on a deceptively simple — and often overlooked — piece of advice: trust your instincts, while also giving students the technology, training and institutional support they need to act on those instincts without delay...

Microsoft Outlook users worldwide experienced significant disruptions beginning on the evening of July 9, 2025, and extending into the following morning. At the peak of the outage, over 2,700 users reported issues accessing their email accounts, according to Downdetector, a platform that...

On the evening of Wednesday, July 9, 2025, and into the morning of Thursday, July 10, 2025, thousands of Microsoft Outlook users experienced service disruptions, including difficulties accessing their inboxes or signing in. Microsoft 365's status page initially reported the issue and began...

Users and administrators across Australia are facing mounting frustration as Microsoft investigates ongoing email delays in Exchange Online, bringing into focus the critical reliance on cloud-based communications for modern businesses. Since Microsoft acknowledged the issue on May 22, many...

A wave of frustration swept across businesses and IT administrators on May 6th, as a significant Microsoft 365 outage disrupted critical cloud services across North America. The incident, which began in the early morning hours, impacted a suite of foundational tools relied upon by organizations...

In a move that’s bound to make Tesla’s Elon Musk grin like he just found another “funding secured” tweet in his drafts, the US Department of Transportation (DOT) has officially loosened the seatbelt on federal crash reporting requirements for self-driving and advanced driver assistance vehicles...

It started, as these things so often do, with a little pop-up. For thousands of enterprise users—minding their own business, dutifully clicking through spreadsheets, crafting presentations, or maybe just hunting for that illusive TPS report—a sudden, unprovoked invitation lit up their screens...

Microsoft Teams File Sharing Outage Signals Growing Strains on Microsoft's Cloud Reliability In a development that has caught the attention of thousands of users globally, Microsoft Teams—the cornerstone collaboration tool for many organizations—has recently faced a significant file sharing...

Microsoft’s recent outage of Outlook on the web has sent ripples across the Windows community and IT departments alike. In a disruption that unfolded on the afternoon of March 19, 2025, thousands of users found themselves unable to log in to their accounts due to a problematic code change...

In a developing story that has caught the attention of Windows users and IT professionals alike, thousands of reports are flooding in regarding an Outlook outage. According to a recent FOX 5 New York report, over 26,000 outage alerts have been recorded, affecting not only Outlook but several...

On November 25, 2024, Microsoft faced a significant global outage affecting its Microsoft 365 suite, disrupting critical services such as Outlook, Exchange, and Teams. For many, this wasn’t just a minor inconvenience—it felt akin to the digital equivalent of a city-wide blackout. With thousands...

Original release date: August 31, 2021 Summary Immediate Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against Ransomware • Make an offline backup of your data. • Do not click on Link Removed. • If you use RDP, secure and monitor it. • Link Removed your OS and software. • Use Link Removed. • Use Link...

This is the third and last in a series of posts that looks at how Microsoft responds to elevated threats to customers through the Microsoft Security Response Center’s (MSRC) Software and Services Incident Response Plan (SSIRP). Our previous posts discussed how Microsoft protects customers...

This is the second in a series of blog posts that shares how the MSRC responds to elevated threats to customers through the Software and Services Incident Response Plan (SSIRP). In our last blog post, we looked at the history of the Microsoft Security Response Center and SSIRP, and how...

Original release date: October 3, 2018 Systems Affected Network Systems Overview The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is aware of ongoing APT actor activity attempting to infiltrate the networks of global managed service providers (MSPs). Since May 2016...

Original release date: October 03, 2018 Systems Affected Network Systems Overview The National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center (NCCIC) is aware of ongoing APT actor activity attempting to infiltrate the networks of global managed service providers (MSPs). Since May 2016...

Ars Technica just posted a article about the FBI stating for people & businesses to restart their routers, modems, etc. immediately to avoid a ongoing Russia hack. Article link : FBI tells router users to reboot now to kill malware infecting 500k devices